Politics

CNN By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — Paul Whelan, who spent five-and-a-half years wrongfully detained in Russia, revealed Tuesday that he had spent the final five days leading up to his release in solitary confinement. “I couldn’t leave my cell, but I made it home,” he said in his first public comments since returning from Russia and

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking more than $100 million from the two corporations that owned and operated the container ship that destroyed Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge in March, claiming that their cost-cutting and negligence in the ship’s maintenance led to the “entirely avoidable” disaster. The two companies, Grace Ocean Private

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — Americans who are renewing their passports will now be able to do so online, a top State Department official announced Wednesday. “This is a new service which will allow Americans to pay to upload a photo and to apply completely online, with no need to appear in person or

By Annie Grayer and Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Acting USSS Director Ronald Rowe has made a concerted effort to put himself front and center after Sunday’s apparent assassination attempt at Donald Trump’s Florida golf course, as he makes his pitch, both publicly and privately, for Congress to provide his agency with more resources. But

By Clare Foran and Haley Talbot, CNN Washington (CNN) — The House failed on Wednesday to pass a six-month GOP government funding plan that included a controversial measure targeting noncitizen voting, an effort pushed by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. The defeat of the bill puts Republican divisions on full display, but it also creates an opportunity

By Gregory Krieg and Gloria Pazmino, CNN (CNN) — A hollowed-out state party apparatus. An off-kilter campaign by the governor. A botched redistricting plan that squeezed out incumbent House members. New York Democrats offered a wide array of excuses for their disastrous 2022 midterms, when Republicans flipped four seats outside New York City on their

CNN By Andrew Kaczynski, CNN (CNN) — A week after President Barack Obama won reelection in November 2012, JD Vance, then a law student at Yale, wrote a scathing rebuke of the Republican Party’s stance on migrants and minorities, criticizing it for being “openly hostile to non-whites” and for alienating “Blacks, Latinos, [and] the youth.”

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump indicated Tuesday that he would reverse a controversial provision of his 2017 tax cut package that limited Americans’ ability to deduct state and local taxes on their federal returns. In a Truth Social post highlighting his Wednesday rally on Long Island, New York, where many residents have

By Eric Bradner and Alison Main, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump told a Michigan crowd Tuesday night that steep tariffs he would impose on products imported from China, Mexico and other countries would rejuvenate the state’s automotive industry and drive an economic boom. Trump, in his first campaign event since Sunday’s apparent assassination

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — Paul Whelan, who spent five-and-a-half years wrongfully detained in Russia, revealed Tuesday that he had spent the final five days leading up to his release in solitary confinement. “I couldn’t leave my cell, but I made it home,” he said in his first public comments since returning from Russia and completing

By Kayla Tausche, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Biden administration submitted a special request to congressional committees in August asking for a boost to funding for the US Secret Service in the weeks leading up to and after the 2024 election, according to sources familiar with the matter, warning of “insufficient resources” for the agency

By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Election officials in Arizona are racing to correct a clerical error that could shut out nearly 100,000 voters from casting ballots in state and local races. Officials say a glitch mistakenly marked that these voters had provided documentation proving their citizenship – which is required to vote in state

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — Microsoft said Tuesday that Russian operatives have in recent weeks intensified their online attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign by producing and disseminating videos promoting “outlandish conspiracy theories” aimed at stoking US racial and political divisions. One of the inauthentic videos, which Microsoft said had been viewed millions

By Jack Forrest, CNN (CNN) — Republicans including vice presidential candidate JD Vance fueled a firestorm of misinformation this month when they spread false claims about Haitian immigrants eating pets in Springfield, Ohio, injecting the town with chaos. The claims, which have been widely discredited, have made their way onto the national stage. Former President

By Andrew Kaczynski, CNN (CNN) — A week after President Barack Obama won reelection in November 2012, JD Vance, then a law student at Yale, wrote a scathing rebuke of the Republican Party’s stance on migrants and minorities, criticizing it for being “openly hostile to non-whites” and for alienating “Blacks, Latinos, [and] the youth.” Four

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — In the wake of the apparent assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump on Sunday, Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance, argued in a speech in Georgia on Monday that the two recent attempts to kill Trump are evidence that “the left needs to tone down the rhetoric

CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Voters want more from Kamala Harris. But while the Democratic nominee has been clear about what she is not — Donald Trump — she is either unwilling or unable to spell out a comprehensive blueprint for exactly what she would do as the 47th president. In an